Mark Kamibaya

@mark-kamibaya *trips over self in excitement about those picture thingies* These are great!!! Thank you for sharing!

@bethanysinkyroses Ah, plotting, my sticking point for every story. 😉 This link is a list of key scenes in any plot. It helps me tremendously to go through the list and come up with ideas for what each scene will be in my story.…[Read more]

@mark-kamibaya  Gotcha. Well hey, film-making is technically writing, too, right? XD

And as long as I’m here I shall lay out a bunch of my favorite movies…

• Inside Out
• Finding Dory
• Home (animated film)
• The Cat Returns
• Big Hero 6
• Zootopia
• Despicable Me
• LEGO Movie
• LEGO Batman Movie
• Peanuts Movie
• Rio, and the sequel
• Kung…

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@daeus  Ooh! Those sound interesting!

Have you ever heard of or seen the movie The Insanity of God? Your post reminded me of it. I would recommend it! but I don’t think it’s out yet… It’s about a couple of missionaries spreading the Gospel in the African Muslin country of Somalia. It’s really exciting and tugs your heart. 8 out of 10.

Note:…[Read more]

@mark-kamibaya Oh, yeah. You’re a Bob Jones guy. I didn’t see Grounded or Created and Redeemed, but my mom saw Created and Redeemed and told me it was really good.

Hi friends,

I just came back from The Christian Worldview Film Festival, if any of you have heard of that. Basically, all I did was watch Christian films for three days, so I thought I’d share my opinions on what I watched.

Feature films:
Altar Egos. This film has a tacked on theme and is not very moving, but it is super hilarious!
Like Arrows.…[Read more]

As someone who is considering using Elemental powers in an upcoming book, I had to ask: what is the MOST ANNOYING thing you’ve seen done using Elementals? What is the coolest? That would really help me, thanks! @warrioroftherealm @mark-kamibaya @daeus

@mark-kamibaya had a great thread on sci-fi a while back that touched on a lot of cliches… Well-worth reading: https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/beginners-tips-for-writing-science-fiction/

@mark-kamibaya thanks. 🙂

@mark-kamibaya @kate-flournoy @daeus You guys are the best. Thanks. I really needed some brutally honest feedback.
Okay, I was definitely wondering about the genre-mixing. I’ll see what I can do about real animals with intelligent-seeming attacks. (Daeus, I find it creepy that you almost nailed my original idea to a T. Like even that scene you…[Read more]

@bethanysinkyroses that would be @sierra-r and I have forgotten Cindy’s as well. 😛

The first thing that strikes me as I read your summary here is that you’ve focused a lot on symbolism.
That’s a good thing. But it can also be a hindrance. In my experience, when I focus too much on the symbolism of a thing, it comes out one-dimensional as only…[Read more]